Button loop



June 23, 1931. e. B. HEATHER BUTTON LOOP Filed Feb. 20, 1950 R n T E V NI GEDHGE B HEATHER ATTy Patented June 23, 1931 UNITED STATES A PATENTOFFICE GEORGE LB. HEATHER, OF WEST HAVEN,

CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE WIRE NOVELTY MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF WESTHAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORH PORATION OF CONNECTICUT BUTTON LOOPApplication filed February 20, 1930. Serial No. 429,947.

Q to be clipped over a button the shank of which may be urged from abutton-receiving loop into a smaller retaining loop from which it cannotbe unintentionally withdrawn.

The objects of the invention are to provide, by bending a piece ofresilient wire, a re versible button loop of which each of the wire endscarry a pin for sliding engagement Within a slot of an enclosing member;and to provide a clip adapted to secure the wire ends for a limitedrelative movement along the plane of the loop and against relativemovement out of said plane. With these and other objects in view, as maybecome apparent from the within disclosures, the invention consists notonly of the particular form herein pointed out and illustrated in thedrawings but readily admits of certain modifications within the scope ofwhat hereinafter may be claimed.

The character of the invention may be best understood by'reference toone illustrative device embodying the invention and illustrated by theaccompanying drawings in which the Figure 1 is an upright elevation ofan incomplete device; the Figure 2 is a sectional view on the line 22 ofthe previous figure; the Figure 3 is an upright elevation of thecomplete device of which a reversed view would be identical therewiththe Figure 4 is a side elevation of the next previous figure; and theFigure 5 is a plan view of the blank from which the clip member isformed.

The device is preferably made from a piece of resilient wire of which amiddle portionis bent to provide the suspension loopl and the arms 2 and3 depending therefrom to provide the associated loops 4 and 5 in axialalignment and having an intermediate normally contracted throat 6, asillustrated by the Figure 1. The wire end portions 7 and 8 are flattenedin the plane of the loops and each flattened portion is provided with afixed pin 9 extending in a perpendicular direction to the plane of theloops and the pin of one flattened portion extending in anoppositedirection to that of the pin of the other flattened portion, as bestillustrated by the Figure 2. While the flattened end portions 7 and 8are illustrated as normally overlapping they may normally abut or berelatively spaced in the same plane. The clip 10 is made of sheet metaland is provided with the staggered slots 11, as best illustrated by theFigure 5, and when the clip is folded upon.

the dotted lines 12 and over the end portions 7 and 8, as illustratedbythe Figures 3 and 4, the slots 11 are each engaged by a pin 9 adaptedto slide therein as the button loop is made to expand and contract bythe passage of the shank S of a button through the throat 6.

The button loop being reversible is adapted to be mounted upon a strapto prominently display the front elevation thereof, as illustrated, oran opposite elevation not illus trated by reason of the fact that bothelevations are identical.

I claim A button loop comprising spring arms cooperating to formassociated loops in axial alignment and having an intermediate normallycontracted throat, the ends of the arms overlapping and each carrying afixed pin extending outwardly in a perpendicular direction to the planeof the loops; a clip member securing the overlapped ends againstrelative movement out of the planeof the loops; and slots provided bythe clip member to receive the pins thereby limiting the movement of theoverlapped ends in the plane of the loops.

GEORGE B. HEATHER. V

